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Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was not one of those busy women who only keep pace with their interests by deputing home management to others.

From Lady John Russell by

John Massingbird possessed a ready hand at packing and arranging; and therefore he preferred doing it himself to deputing it to others.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

After the council broke up he was heard outside accosting this and that deputing chief, and speaking in a loud, gratified tone of the Rajah's property being protected in the Rajah's absence.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph

Then, instead of deputing ecclesiastics or great dignitaries to present the Emperor's letter to Pius VII.,

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various